"You know, it just goes to show you that people aren't listening to that anyway," Wahlberg said. "They might buy your CD or watch your movie, but you don't put food on their table. You don't pay their bills. A lot of Hollywood is living in a bubble. They're pretty out of touch with the common person, the everyday guy out there providing for their family."

Wahlberg's went on to say he comes "from the real world," and some of his newer roles have been characters of humble origins. In "Patriots Day," he plays a police officer during the terrorist attack, and in "Deepwater Horizon," he played a crew worker on the title drilling rig during the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.